Jim's Bookshelf

Beskrivelse
Industriously (if incorrectly) alphabetized by first sentence, by a certain amnesiac archangel in A.Z. Fell's Soho antiquarian bookstore, as seen in Good Omens season 2.
1
I Capture the Castle
af Dodie Smith
9,219 medlemmer
294 anmeldelser
4.1
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alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
2
No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley
af Rita Marley
116 medlemmer
4.2
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: I was an ambitious girl child.
3
A Tale of Two Cities
af Charles Dickens
36,746 medlemmer
455 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
4
The Crow Road
af Iain Banks
3,215 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
5
Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten : roman
af Mark Haddon
44,367 medlemmer
1,331 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was 7 minutes after midnight.
6
Punkt 22
af Joseph Heller
40,065 medlemmer
526 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was love at first sight.
7
Kærlighed i koleraens tid
af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,842 medlemmer
412 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
8
The Bell Jar
af Sylvia Plath
28,153 medlemmer
503 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
9
1984
af George Orwell
82,139 medlemmer
1,274 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
10
(Big Sleep, The) Det byder man ikke Carmen
af Raymond Chandler
10,307 medlemmer
284 anmeldelser
4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
11
Den store Gatsby
af F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,316 medlemmer
1,171 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
12
The Catcher in the Rye
af J. D. Salinger
69,645 medlemmer
1,081 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…
13
Den onde greve
af Lemony Snicket
21,400 medlemmer
493 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
14
Herzog
af Saul Bellow
5,207 medlemmer
61 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
15
Stolthed og fordom
af Jane Austen
80,829 medlemmer
1,370 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
16
Good Omens
af Terry Pratchett
34,801 medlemmer
789 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
alexa_d
Forklaringer
alexa_d: It was a nice day.